Ellen Fullman and Theresa Wong, Soundless - MOCA Geffen
Presented by MOCA and Fulcrum Arts
Friday, October 18th, 2024 | 7:30 pm
Saturday, October 19th, 2024 | 4:00 pm
$12 Adults
$10 MOCA Members

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Composer, instrument maker, and performer Ellen Fullman (b.1957, Memphis, TN) has focused on the development of her signature project, The Long String Instrument, for over forty years. Using dozens of tuned strings, each over 50 feet in length, Fullman transforms physical space into a site-specific musical instrument.

Soundless is composed by Fullman and her longtime collaborator, cellist and guitarist Theresa Wong (b. 1976, Schenectady, NY). The work explores string resonance and its capacity to create a space of connection, empathy, and multiplicity. The spectrally undulating drones of the Long String Instrument combine with rhythms created by Fullman's unique 'box bow' and 'shoveler' tools as well as Wong's performance on cello and electric guitar, which is specialized through four-channel amplification. Together, Fullman and Wong create a work that responds to and is shaped by the industrial architecture of WAREHOUSE.

Soundless was comissioned by room40 following the label's critically acclaimed release of their album, Harbors.